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In 1194, Frederick II, the Holy Roman emperor from 1220 to 1250, was born.
CNN: Thursday,
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In 1155, Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV.
CNN: Wednesday,
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In 1519, Charles I of Spain became Holy Roman Emperor and ruled until 1556 as Charles V.
CNN: Sunday,
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In 1637, Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, archduke of Austria and king of Bohemia and Hungary, died.
CNN: Saturday,
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Eventually he became court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Philip II, King of Spain.
ECONOMIST: The greatest painter of the Venetian Renaissance
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But Muserico just pops out all over, between Pope and Holy Roman Emperor.
FORBES: Muserico
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The celebrated Charles V with Dog shows the Holy Roman Emperor at the height of his power, with an expression and pose to match.
BBC: Venice��s most famous painter comes to Rome
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In gold writing on purple parchment, the 10th-century Holy Roman Emperor Otto I asserts his veto power over the election of new pontiffs.
WSJ: Lux in Arcana | Capitoline Museum | The Papacy's Private Papers | By Francis X. Rocca
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Joseph II, Holy roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790, created scholarships for talented poor students and was also a great supporter of Wolfgang Mozart.
FORBES: Quincy Jones Receives Montblanc Honor For His Patronage Of The Arts
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In 1214, Philip II of France beat an allied English, Flemish and German army under Otto IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, at the Battle of Bouvines.
CNN: Monday,
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In 1508, the League of Cambrai was formed by Pope Julius II, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon to attack Venice.
CNN: Tuesday,
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Pope Clement VII's 1530 bull approving the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V might seem an assertion of papal supremacy until one notes that it followed the 1527 sack of Rome by Charles's mutinous troops, many of them German Lutherans.
WSJ: Lux in Arcana | Capitoline Museum | The Papacy's Private Papers | By Francis X. Rocca